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Black Joe Prospect

Occurrence in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodities Iron, Phosphorus-Phosphates
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10045392
MRDS ID M233105
Record type Site
Current site name Black Joe Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.1593, 39.90823 (WGS84)
Elevation 1585
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Buena Vista Hills South(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Carson Sink(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Carson Desert(hydrologic unit)

Carson(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management NV)

Bureau of Land Management NV BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Churchill

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 024N 034 33 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ON A LOW RIDGE JUST WEST OF A SMALL TRIBUTARY OF COPPER KETTLE CANYON, ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE STILLWATER RANGE EXACT LOCATION UNCERTAIN. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Phosphorus-Phosphates Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Apatite Gangue
Calcite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification

Analytical data

Result JUST SOUTH OF THE SHAFT, THE PHOSPHORUS CONTENT OF THE ORE EXCEEDS MAXIMUM ACCEPTED BY STEEL MANUFACTURERS

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 62
USGS model code 18d
Deposit model name Skarn Fe

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.1593, 39.90823
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Strike NORTHWARD
    Dip STEEPLY WEST
  • General form BLANKET
    Dip STEEPLY WEST

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1942
Discoverer Frank Green, Wayne Stoker, Ed Green & Edwin Marker, Of Lovelock

Mining district

District name Copper Kettle District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • OLD SHAFT, SEVERAL SURFACE TRENCHES

Comments on development

  • SEVERAL UNPATENTED CLAIMS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MILS, 1979, U.S.B.M.

  • Deposit

    SHAWE, F.R., REEVES, R.G., AND KRAL, V.E., 1962, IRON ORE DEPOSITS OF NEVADA: PT. C., IRON ORE DEPOSITS OF NORTHERN NEVADA: N.B.M.G. BULL. 53., P. 118-121.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MAGNETITE OCCURS IN VEINS AS MASSIVE MAGNETITE TO CALCITE WITH DISSEMINATED GRAINS OF MAGNETITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-81 La Pointe, D.D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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